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In the late 1800s, oil became the infrastructure of modern life—and one system learned to control the flow.
This video explains how Rockefeller’s Standard Oil scaled from refining into a full supply-chain machine, and why it triggered America’s biggest antitrust showdown.

We break the story into clear mechanisms:

Volatility → endurance → acquisitions (survive downturns, buy competitors cheap)

Transportation leverage (rail shipping terms)

Vertical integration (storage, pipelines, distribution)

Organization at scale (the trust model)

Backlash and law (Sherman Act, then the 1911 Supreme Court breakup)

You’ll see why the question isn’t just “good or bad.”
It’s: when a system becomes essential infrastructure, who gets to control it—and what happens next?

Chapters
00:00 Oil becomes the world’s key resource
00:56 Rockefeller’s discipline: bookkeeping + control
01:52 Why refining wins: standards + logistics
03:36 The Pennsylvania oil chaos (volatility)
04:32 Scale = survival (endurance → acquisition)
05:36 Standard Oil (1870): the “system” begins
06:24 Railroads: shipping leverage
07:44 Pipelines + vertical integration (control the chain)
12:08 Trust, politics, and the backlash
16:00 Sherman Act + the public turning point
19:12 1911 breakup — and the twist
22:56 The lasting lesson: who controls the flow?
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